An Afghan police officer wakes Council Burhanuddin Rabbani in the vicinity of the House of the head of the Afghanistan high peace, after an explosion in Kabul 20 September 2011.
IMG credit: Reuters/Ahmad Masood
Sanjeev Miglani and Hamid Shalizi
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan accepted a Taliban Office in Qatar, to help peace talks, but no foreign power can gather pace in the process without his approval who said Government Peace Council, such efforts, to find a solution to the 10-year war.
Afghanistan high Peace Council, in a note to foreign missions, has laid down principles which involved Kabul worried growing Taliban after that favors the United States and Qatar, to open by Germany, with the Taliban to an Office in the Qatari capital of Doha.
It said that negotiations could only begin with the Taliban after they stopped violence against civilians, cut by al Qaeda and the Afghan Constitution accepts the civil rights and freedoms, guaranteed rights for women.
Council, said Reuters according to a copy of the 11 points note, provided any peace process with the Taliban have the support of Pakistan's as members of the Group of the rebels were it would have to.
The Council said "The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is the agreement on the opening of an Office for the armed opposition, but only to the peace process to move forward and negotiations,".
The Government would prefer such an Office in Saudi Arabia or Turkey, both that it is close to, but not averse, Doha, as long as the authority of the Afghan State was not eroded and became the Office only for talks, officials said.
"We say Saudi or Turkey are preferable, we say that there must be only one." "The only condition is that it should be in an Islamic country," an official said.
President Hamid Karzai administration reminds Doha its Ambassador last week, apparently angry that there were kept in the dark on the last round of negotiations with the insurgent group.
Kabul officials said also gravely concerned about reports that the United States military prison is considering transfer a small number of Afghan prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Doha as a prelude to the talks.
"We are a sovereign country, we have laws." How can you transfer our prisoners from one country to another. A violation in Guantanamo Bay have it ", said the official."
The Afghan Government the prisoners wanted to be returned to her custody, the official said.
This month, Reuters, reported that the United States the transfer of an unspecified number of Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in custody of the Afghan Government as part of the acceleration, high-stakes diplomacy was considering.
"We have no problem with this." In fact, we have requested this for a while. "The Afghan prisoners are," said officials refused, be identified.
The challenges of finding underlined the tension between the Karzai Government and the United States on the inclusion of the Taliban for a political solution as the West prepared on the most combat troops from the country by 2014 to withdraw.
Efforts to the insurgents group engage have a number of setbacks, the recent assassination of the head of the Peace Council and former President, Burhanuddin Rabbani, in the hands of a suicide bomber in September, the Act is to face a Taliban of Envoy.
VERHÄRTUNG OF THE INVESTMENTS
This led to a hardening of positions with Karzai said Government suicide bombers could speak and that an address for the Taliban, it should that negotiators realize that they are talking about the right representative.
"We are determined, the process of reconciliation, the experience of the last ten years shows that no military solution is possible." "In conversation with the armed opposition of the key in this context is", said presidential spokesman Aimal McGuinness.
The Peace Council, laying down the marker for engagement with the Taliban, celebrities said both the Taliban and the Government was involved in the talks.
It said that "before negotiations can take place, violence against Afghans must cease, and that the armed opposition must to the al Qaeda and other terrorist groups connections."
He also said that the Taliban the Constitution by a majority were adopted and in the last 10 years made honor the profits, since she ousted from power conditions, that the Taliban, no trace of accept must have shown.
The Taliban accept no Constitution and have sworn, fighting continue until all foreign forces have left the country.
The Peace Council said Pakistani support for talks take place, a further condition which complicates the task due to the tense relations between the United States and Pakistan which fears it will shut down of the process and is required.
Open is a Taliban Office in a third country as a way to distance from Pakistan has create long-standing relationships of the insurgent group.
But the Government official said that he does not believe the Peace Council such harsh conditions had set, that the talks would fail, even before it started.
"We do not believe that it is a deal breaker." We are quite optimistic ", he said."
(Editing by Robert Birsel)
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